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S&snouU be STILU
Savannah, Ga.
sw! * e .wood Class flatter,
nan^ 1 '
Georgia Affairs.
to th( , Amerieus lit confer Lou
icconi V H U -,ev, colore 1. of Sumter
•** * te „ a arrested, charged with
** y: sheriff of Sumter county, lost
: 00^nt l ary fl-e on Wednesday. Kls
I s ontents, and two stacks of fod
*f * nirce of a needle and a piece of
A r,* recently ex’rac’ei from the foot
j w Anslev, of Eueca Vista.
**' '. , gamer says Andy Brown, color
‘e 'up a turkey recently, found a
* gizzard.
®® Pi n?er Hook and ladder Company, in
. , n with Hi pe Company No. 1, are to
fC -V-and firemen s tourcament ia Athens
and :u:h. Funds for the display are
mv being raised
>ir Tbeod reJ. Elmore's recent
•ati' r tbe Christian Index, of Atlanta,
f l * family Me a 'rials' ia an e'egant vol-
of three hun Ireland fifty pages, printed
8 ' m (i ij paper, and illustrated with a
° . 1 h-*a ith >r. and a picture of the old
J®h, tneste id at St. Charles, Illinois. Ihe
pur p!e and gold, and the w h lie pub
, -s the highest credit on the
faMllOtl rWIICV-- 3
v .lsiso Xsws St a:u Printing Establisum nt,
■Hie biri-n Tinhcr Hazette says: ‘ The
~ , y„ mer's Monthly, Savannah, for
r _, , n - cune duly to hand. This is unqaea
,l,. 1 hs- nubUcitim of the kind pub
gosa ; r uxe ‘ ,r3k ■
'n is gatherel all a'tug the line of the
A ajit and Western Kail road to catch a
gimp* of the Bernhardt.
*rlearn from the Thomasville Timex that
Jadg J H pkias, t g-ther with Mr. Mason, of
pc;! iriph.i. and two g -:i lemen from Minne
. hundred and four
t*o jiuil iaone day's sh otirig ou the Monti*
w ib roai. The Timex -tates that the shooting
has ua and is remarkably fine, and many
Jforthern visitors are enjoying it.
■rjj.. stite Arr. I'.tural Soe'ety will meet in
Ti oiK-ide on Tuesday 11 ‘it. CoL Robert Q.
Jttcheil. on b -half of the citiz *n, will dlivr
saaldress of a e come. The Tuomas County
Stack Breeders' Ass X'iation was formed on
Taeoiay. It is hoped that if it proves success
ful much oJi iUil diverted fro u the county
Frienl Grub' , thinks i: is a shame that the
pirt of Parien Is always rc-glected in the mat
Wofipprof ri i:: u>. He says that no port in
Aner.io needs an appropriation as much as
tint one.
Tt? Albany .! Icertiser says that farming
opvmti ins have i *n unusually active in that
tec . n during the past week or two. The
flue weather recently enjoyed Iks been most
propitious forw.jrkof ali kinds on the farm,
•ad the absence of the farmers and laborers
from Albany indicates that they have been
imprcting ea,-h shiniug hour.
A special to the Columbus Times, from New
a*E. ?ut,s th?.' on Thursday Km a terrible ac
cident occurred at Ilogansville to W. H. Ma
iono a brakeman. He was between the cars
coupling when he stepped inta a stock gap.
Hcsleft hand was cut off just above the joint.
The train passed over his right arm, tearing it
off He is not expected to live.
Hr. D. B, Hack, a prominent citizen and
manufacturer, of Augusta, is dead.
The Macon Telegraph understands that the
trends of Doc. Wilson, the ti urderer of Mr.
Taley. say they would be willii g to bring him
trial six months h.-ace, but not at the
present time in the height of the excitement
and prejudice against him. It is to be hoped
theauthTitles will not consult Doc's friends
a:..:, matter, but will see that he is captured
and brought to trial speedily, whether they are
wiling or not.
Judge Warner is still seriou-ly sick. It is
Offered that hie illness is the result of an at
s*ck of broken bone fever, which he contracted
some two months ago.
The Covingten enterprise states that laat
Friday n ght week a* a negro frolic. In Newton
county a general difficulty occurred among
kiifunl ring people. In the mebe a colored
-a > was brained, and immediately gave up
the ghost. The matter was brought before
ieeourt, the lawyers argued the merits of it
• rmasy hours, and in ail probability the fuss
*sd murder will bother a higher court, and
ps some cost on the county.
The Swainsboro Herald says that the farmers
■ Emanuel c unty will probably be late in
their crops, as the land is so boggy
•tz. aey cannot ploogh. It will be some time
fet before they can begin to break up corn
Iriund.
‘-e fo o,in K are the Darien Gazette's timber
iWUtior.s for last week: Sipiare-600 aver
** v ' j' rs: TW average,
•p. vNi'-ir 9-0 average.
. 1.100 average. $ i®l2 25: 1.200
lrcab—SOl) average, S~ 50^
'average, f ap';siX)average, B’.oai2 50:
i avrage, fidaia 50
rvs.rc ro Beraid: “Cows and sheep con*
sue-- B ' U!anue V probably has never
Cv,j"" ‘ a o# s in. live stock. Lambs are
4 " k . tapidiy,or rather they are nearly
vjj J -V. e Banner we learn that work
mverdty campus improve
r i-' r,H < " will Ih* plowed, har
•j
„ r '‘"’°vcd. The improvement is
the Alum rosi, T °T 1‘ J Berckmacs,
hs an ‘ )nst ’ w ho is superintending it.
(•arinrhi thl u ,l ‘ f ‘ r,ew ser ial. “Vascop,'' ap
\ru:hrrn Z', < ' E b:.v N ens. he Thomvsville
wrv, ,/ rr * r-' ir w a\ s: “Coionel Estiilde
•f'V.oa ih, cmllt f°r his untiring efforts to
l t t, ;ve t •.!-r,t of the Sou'h and
Ml.. ' , _ " 1 leaders a l:t*rarure that has
p. u T . or H,, use of the Southern
iria'frv ‘ ' bn ffforts meet with even
_ u '.cfss tnau in the past.’’
|n> rrv J‘n rs states that the
hfliinerr si.rfe i, . "rters, and his wife's
ref Thor- , . a 'joining, ou South Broad
Tues v' i-.-t, *' t we l e destroyed by fire on
•J'lta cot fire i e by desperate
*. i ,v 1 le fiames to the doomed
a ehl , .rnE!! eV * r>t * and a serious con
rir. and. Tb„ J,!, r , e ' l , l ,r ' 'Perty was fully in
vrrani ihL Mitchell House lined
•wched wit>? n, u wm >“WS of the hotel, and
■ec. ' “-terest the labors of the flre
feii* thif , r ' : ip l , X al: "The last issue of
t'tc&tii of ,u V* -'eutpof'er contains a pho
s**annah N-1 J '.t' proprietor of the
by u',‘ "' , the photograph being fur-
The cut is raid to
**■l it 1* h r r a ’^' Ura ' e . llkl ‘iicss of Cos! Estill.
F, e m appropriate that Leslie should
Jf Dtst r,' v , ! _' h features of the proprietor of
t irr &t Xr:, j Paper in the South. For the
'With." * ' 'F far the best da ly in the
, K°chrar, r„ .
to ,rn<JZl 9r: ’ Mr I- iSirmon at
er tbe railroad track ahead of
zticked ?. H , ' , : *Pot *'n Tuesday, and was
her L|l 0r '“' lve feet aher.d by the
"I', ar.d , lr p*n across the swi-ch
*"Kch., t ar , s eus derably and painfuliy
seWdiefl$ e Wdiefl 0 < ;“" :s^, .*>vd had a jxirtion of
*feei. ]’ ia *" s left hand cut off by a
Theam. im, ,n . d^rful ,hat he was not
,T‘ hen dct.-ru la , l ernl injury has not
** to Ketfcer." “toed. He blames himself
Ati%o^
fianee cf : “ Yesterday morning
at Wolfe r.,‘r r a T Q etionable character,
r K t *. of AUa.,.r r ' ar ' J - near this city, John
ehot by Henry Brown.
WiS Eht w itV tf “ e Cit T 00 * Tisit - Mr ‘
, fc aßd a pistol, the ball entering
Jjoxi, a!thouej, mmif out at ‘he side. The
Jnous. Mr “ luite painful, is not at all
fattendm* to i' < oa the Greets yeeter
h-v *nV r ,p Mr. Ere. n was
released at . Perk i>on, but was after
aogav* Um request of Mr. Parks,
of ‘he manner in >**“ able *0
's no r,:,„ ar * n "hich the shooting oc
®f*seemed wiHi a^ t .^ aain ‘®‘l with the particu
, Darien Go*,,, S 1 say mu ch about it.”
eitL h'todreu P 4 * l week about
mu dan f o? cS 41 ? 1 ® down, measuring
SL U ia KOO d a aenh and square timber
The rel>cwiJi D f^ hi^h
**• Timber bas been
of h’s utw e arc s, rrl*,* * during the past ten
ku® ** 0? J® state that a great deal
r ur * Sadly g“‘
of “e sqm,* timber was
Sanvannah morning News
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
bought by the mill men and will be for
imldng purposes, it not being lit to ship We
would again earnestly advise the timber cut
ters to be more careful in the selection and
manufacture of their timber. It Is to their in
terest to do it, for a good article of timber
always brings a good price, while the poor
stuff brings poor prices.”
The Augusta Chronicle chronicles a terrible
accident which occurred in that city on Friday.
It says: “Yesterday morning as a train of flat
cars backed quickly round the Knoxville Rail
road curve at th-3 head of Greene street, four
gentlemen stood at the end of the first car,
watching the road and fanned by a spring like
breeze. One minute later three of them
jumped up breathless and bruised from a mass
of wood piled above them, while beneath the
rail* lay a bleedirg mass—a dying man. The
rumor that Mr. John IL Killian, road master of
the Port Royal and Augusta Railroad, had
b en killed sped rapi ily through the city, and
In less than half an hour aftei a wood car had
mounted the cross ties and careened over a
curve, a number of people had witnessed the
last gasp of a man who had never shirked a
duty or dodged a danger. It was a cold, rough
hand that they folded upon his breast as he lay
out on the grass—but it bad been an honest
one: and that breast—it was mangled now —
but it had been a manly one. So we found
him. He died as ha had lived—between the
rails; Be lived as l.e bad died—at his post. On
the track where he had fallen from the car
were blotches of blood, while the trucks whi -h
had passed over him had been stopped about
one hundred and fifty feet, allowing nearly
fonr cars to roll by.”
On the subject of “Hay for H gs,” the
Columbus Times says: “We do not know of
any suggestion as to the best way to fatten
h'>gs exactly appropriate in this section of
the country, for there Is but a very few people
who raise them now-a-days. But, thinking
that perhaps some old school farmer might
still be living hereabout! we pu dish the fol
lowing from an exchange: 'Very few are
aware > f the fact that hay is exceedingly
beneficial to hogs ; but it is true, nevertheless.
Hogs need rough food as well as horses, rattle
or the human race. To prepare it, yoJ should
have a cutting-box, or hay-cutter, and the
greener the hay the better. Cut the hay fine,
and mix with bran, shorts or middlings, and
feed -s other food. Hogs soon learn to like it,
and if soaked in swill or other slop food, it Is
highly relished by them. In winter use for
hogs the same hay you fe-d to your horses,
and you will find that, while it saves bran,
shorts or other food. It puts on flesh as rapidly
as anything that can be given them.’ ”
The Cartersviile Free Press thus tells how a
negro man was killed while attempting to cross
a railroad bridge: - “On last Saturday morn
ing, as the Cincinnati Southern train neared
the Pettit’s creek bridge, about one mile above
town, the engineer saw a negro man trying to
cross the bridge. The train was running at
the rate of fifty miles an hour, but he Imme
diately blew the whistle and applied the air
brakes, but it was no use. The unfortunate
man had passed over about two-thirds of the
bring?, and seeing that he could not get en
tirely across, leaned himself over so as not to
strike the pilot, but the upper part of the en
gine struck the man just above the left temple,
no doubt killing bi>u instantly, and knocking
him into the creek below. Persons were fishing
for the body all day without succe-a, but on
Sunday morning about 11 o’clock found the
body about seventy-five yards below the bridge
and it was immediately brought to town and
placed in the court house. Mr. Mull, our Coro
ner. summoned a jury at once and a verdict
was rendered iu accordance with the above
statement. The name of the unfortnate man
was Morgan Smith, who lived on a Mr. Price’s
place, seven miles from Griffin, near Sunny
fdde. He hd been on a vi-dt to relatives in
Rome, and stopped over at Rogers’ on his re
turn home. He left Rogers’ intending to get
on the down passenger at thi? place. He was
about sixty-five years old, weighed about 1.0
pounds, and was about five feet six inches
high. On his person was found a pint bottle
about one third full of whisky, a pocketbook
containing $3 05. a knife, a memorandum book
containing a tax receipt for last year, and a
letter, vv e understand he leaves a wife and
six children. No b'ame can be attached to the
engineer, as the train was two hundred yards
from the bridge when he blew the whistle and
put ou the brakes.”
LETTER FROM JEFFERSON COUN
TY, FLORIDA.
The Plan tern Behind Time-Scarcity
of Labor and Bad Weather—Very
Little Damage to Oats from the
Fretzc-The Condition of the
Fences —\ Fence Law Needed.
Mosticeuaj, Jefferson Cocnty, Fla., Feb
ruary 19.— Editor Morning News: The farming
interest in this section is badly behind time
caused by a scarcity of libor and prolonged
bad weather generally. The past week, how
ever, has teen quite pleasant, and the young
leaesof the wild cherry and yard shrubbery,
as well as the budding of the forest oak, in
dicate the near approach of spring or seed
time, and yet the fenciug is not repaired nor
the U.nds cleaned off for the plough. Sugar
cane and sweet potatoes ia many instances are
yet undisturbed from their winter quarters.
Garden truck is about the only thing planted.
The freeze did but little damage to the oat crop
here, because there was only a small areasown
at that time. But few 1 arm era have labor
encugh and had to pay a high rate to con
trol them, and then many if them are in
ferior and trifling, a majority of the best labor
haring gone to the railroad and turpentine
farms. I fear bread stuffs will be scarce the
next season and command high prices. Agri
culture and stock cannot grow up together,
and but few farmers (if any) can comply with
the statute in regard to fencing. As the law
now exists, it is ail in the protection of bad
stock to the detriment and loss of toe farmer.
I think if cur Legislature wants to benefit the
many instead of the few, it will make a reason
able fence law, so that it can generally be
complied with. A fence made with common
split rails, ten rails h j gh. will average four and
a half feet in height, and ought to be sufficient.
Another good law would be to allow the Tax
Assessor of each county a sufficient per cent,
to go or send deputies to every man’s house in
the county to assess the taxes. Thousands of
dollars worth of property is smuggled to avoid
the tax
I made my brag shot yesterday, killing one
hundred and nine blackbirds at one shot, and
challenge Florida to beat it. R. H. M.
Tke Wreck of a (ireat Alan.
Cincinnati Commercial.
As I drove down the avenue after
Garfield had been declared duly elected,
I saw at the window of the National
Hotel a man's face, looking vacantly out
over the crowd. A pale face, with
strong jaws, shaven cheeks and smooth
ly parted hair; the window was closed
and fastened, and there he sat, who had
four years ago been one of the noted
electoral commission—Justice Clifford,
of the Supreme Bench-his memory
gone; his fine mind so feeble that he is
not able to dictate his resignation. He
is kept a prisoner in his room, watched
over by the dearest wife that e”er a man
had. They say she is so changed that
her friends would not know her,
she has aged so fast since this
affliction has fallen on her brilliant
husband. A few days ago the inva
lid escaped from the care of the nurse
and wandered out through the halls of
the hotel, looking pitifully into faces
that he did not remember, although the}'
were the faces of old friends. He was
going to court, he said, when one of
them detained him; in a few moments
his nurse was after him, and led him
back, witnout resistance, into his room,
and there he sits—occupied with what
vagaries!—while the endless crowd
surges through the streets; dreaming,
who shall ever know of what? —the
while anew leader comes up to the
Presidency; anew race of giants possess
the land in w’hich he was an honored
and a marked public man, filling a great
place in the nation’s history but yester
day.
Sad Death of an Old Soldier. —
Capt. Geo. Stevens, of Jackson, Pa.,
was wounded just under the heart at
Gettysburg in 1802. but recovered and
fought until the war ended. The old
wound began to trouble him again four |
years ago, and he kept gradually failing. !
Eminent physicians pronounced his case
incurable. He died on Monday, and for j
several days previous it required four
strong men to hold him. In the dying ;
hour, despite the vigorous efforts of his \
friends to hold him. he broke their em- |
brace, and leaping through his bedroom
window, fed to the ground, a distance
of ten feet, where he breathed his last. .
There are some very straightforward
people in Galveston. One of them went
up into the Ifews office, ad sauntering
up to the desk, asked;
*T hear that the Bible has been re
vised. Do you know if many important
changes have been made?’’
“A good many, I believe.”
“Then there is no mistake about j
Ananias being struck dead for lying?”
“No, I believe not.”
“Well, if I was you I would find out
about it.” and he strolled out as uncon
cernedly as you please.
“For several years 1 have had Torpid
Liver. A year ago I tried, as an experi
ment, Tatt’a Pills, and was surprised to find I
that they accomplished all the results of
Calomel without any of its bad effects. I
was always an unbeliever In Patent Medi
cines, but am convinced that there ia ome
good in Nazareth. E. H. Gbat,
“Augusta, Ga.”
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
SHERMAN AND THE IMPORTERS
ON THE SUGAR QUESTION.
Tbe Tax on Bank Cheeks, Drafts
and Matches— Tbe Cattle Diseases
Maatnres—Adjournment to attend
the Funeral of Fernando Wood.
Washington, February 19,—1n the House,
! as soon as the reading of the journal was
, concluded, there was a general demand for
recognition from all parts of the chamber,
but after the passage of a few private bills
the regular order was called for.
Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, from the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, reported the
bill repealing all laws imposing taxes on
bank checks, drafts or orders, bank depcs
j its, friction matches, medical preparations,
perfumery, cosmetics, cologne and other
articles. Referred to the committee of the
whole.
Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, offered resolu
tions providing that as a mark of respect to
the memory of the late Fernando Wood,
and In order to enable the members and
officers of the House to attend the funeral
ceremony at 3 p. m., the House shall ad
journ at 2 o’clock to-day, and directing the
Clerk to Invite the members of the Senate
to join the members of the House in at
tending said funeral. The resolutions were
unanimously adopted.
Mr. Cox, of New York, said he had in
tended to call up the apportlot meut bill to
day, but he had learned that his Republican
friends had not concluded their conference.
He thought it proper to defer to their wishes,
but expected to call up his bill as soon as
he heard something definite from the other
side.
The House, at 12:15, went Into committee
of the whole, Mr. Cox, of New York, in the
chair, on the agricultural appropriation bill.
The committee rose without consideration
of the bill, and the conference report on
the army appropriation bill was agreed to.
The at 2 o’clock, adjourned.
In the Senate, the credentials of Johnson
N. Camden, of West Virgiuia, and Howell
E. Jackson, of Tennessee, Senators-elect,
were presented, the former by the Vice
President and the latter by Mr. Bailey.
A number of proposed amendments to the
river and harbor bill were introduced and
referred. At 12:45, after debate upon the
priority of business, the regular order (the
calendar) was postponed.
On motion of Mr. Johnston, the cattle
diseases bill, establishing a bureau of animal
Industry, etc., was taken up, the division
resulting 22 to 21.
During the debate, Mr. Wbvte presented
the memorial of A. Bchumacher, agent of
the North German Lloyds and the Allan
; lines of steamers; G. Meredith & Cos., Geo.
| Appold, President of the Merchants and
Miners’ Transportation Company; R. Fos
ter, agent of the York River Line, and fifty
other leading shippers and merchants of
Baltimore, praying for an appropriation to
restore the lighthouse at Sharp’s Island, on
the eastern side of Chesapeake Bay. Re
ferred to the Committee on Appropriations.
The resolution offered by Mr. Kernan for
an adjournment at 2 p. m. to enable the
members and officers of the Senate to at
tend the funeral of the late Representative
Wood, was adopted.
The. cattle disease debate was resumed.
Mr. Morgan, in vitw of objections to the
bill, constitutional and otherwise, moved its
recommittal to a select committee. After
remarks by Messrs. MePherson, Johnston,
Rollins and Kirkwood, on the propriety of
considering someone of the special bills
pending on the subject, Mr. Morgan with
drew his intention to move as a substitute
for the pending measure the bill formerly
introduced by hlin. Without progress on
the bill, the Senate, at 2 p. m., adjourned.
THE BUGAB QCESTION DISCUSSED.
The House Committee of Ways and
< Means ga/e a hearin? this morning upon
the sugar question. Delegations were pre
sent representing the eunar trade of New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Biltlmore,
and Secretary Sherman appeared on behalf
of the Treasury Department. J. E. Sbearles,
Jr., of New York, for the sugar Importers,
made a lengthy review of the question.
He claimed that law as adopted by Con
gress Is clear and plain, and that the Secre
tary of the Treasury bad himself admitted
before the Wars and Means Committee that
j the Trsasury Department had no right by
, Its regulations to Interfere with the opera
| t’.on of the law. That the term duties and
staudard of color having been defined by the
courts to be a well understood commercial
phrase it became a contract between the
government and the importers. That the
Treasury orders under which the duties are
now collected, superseded the law of Con
gress introducing anew principle In the as
sessment of duties. That judicial decisions,
In the only two cases ever tried, were mis
quoted by the department, and so far from
1 justifying Its rulings were directly In oppo
sition to them.
He insisted that the .sugar Importers were
houest, law-abiding citizens, entirely willing
to obey the laws even though protesting
against tke arbitrary edicts of tho Treasury
Department.
Secretary Sherman defended the posltian
| of the department and insisted upon Its right
under the law to test the commercial value
of imported sugars in assessing duties, and
j to employ such tests as in the judgment of
I the department would best protect the
; revenue from frauds. He should continue
Ito enforce his rulings until some
further enactment of Congress
alter®! or amended the present law. He
was In favor of speedy legislation, how
! ever, to settle all points of dispute, and
| hoped Congreas at the present session would
: pass some law to accomplish that result.
The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday
i next.
THE LAND LEAGUE.
Rousing ffteetlng in Brooklyn—
Speech of Father Mackey.
New YqnK, February 20.—The Land
League agitation is showing signs of in
i creased activity in Brooklyn. In the eastern
district three meetings were hold this after
noon. Much enthusiasm was displayed.
At the Thirteenth ward meeting the at
! tendance was large, and It was difficult to
I obtain seats. Rev. Father Mackey, recently
from Ireland, addreesed the meeting, and
said the present crisis was a most important
oue and the members of the Land League
were fully justified in doing everything
! they could to 6t,and by tbeir leaders,
! provided they did not drift into revolution,
i The Irish people were, never so united
as they are now. Parnell and Dillon
Intended to do everything In a constitu
, tional way. They bad nothing to do with
the revolutionists of the continent, as the
cablegrams had eaid. The resnlt of the
agitation would be the rational Indepen
dence of Ireland. They would wait till
they could strike a sure blow, then they
would do tt, and not till then.
After Father Mackey’s address, which
elicited many demonstrations of applause,
several persons joined the League.
A LOUISIANA FIRE.
Two Veanela and a Large Lot of
Cotton Consumed.
New Orleans, February 20—A special
to the Democrat from Monroe, La , says the
steamer Fair Play, with 800 bales of cotton,
the wharf boat Katie, with 500 bales of cot
ton, and a large lot of merchandise were
entirely destroyed by fire yesterday morn
ing. The fire is supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary. The loss Is estimated |
at SBO,OOO. The Fair Play was ownnd in New
Orleans by John Krarz, and was valued at j
$8,000; insured for $4,000. The Katie was
valued at $5,000, and w as Insured for $3,000.
Th<* cotton .valued at $64 000, was insured (or
$40,000. The officers of the Fair Play barely
escaped with their lives. Most of them had
to leave the boat In their night clothes.
Captain Rabun and Thomas Aber, the clerk,
had their faces and hands badly burned.
Edward Hancock, a painter, perished In the
flames.
That Morey Letter.
Nrw York, February 20.—11. 11. Hadley,
formerly agent of tbe Democratic National
Committee, writes a letter In which he de
ntes that he had any eonnectlqn with the
Morey letter, and proposes that a reward of
from $5,000 to $25,000 be offered for the dis
covery of the writer.
Pilgrim* to Mentor,
Cleveland, 0., February 20.—Hon. John
C New, of Indianapolis; Hon. James Har
lan of lowa, and Hon. Charles J. Folger,
Chief Justice of the New York Court of
Appeals, arrived at Mentor yesterday.
Many sink into an early grave by cot giv
ing immediate attention to a slight cough,
which could have been stopped In time by
a25 cent bottle of Dr. Bull’® Cough Syrup.
feb2l-lt
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1861.
THE TELEGRAPH WAR.
The French Cable Company Obtain®
a Preliminary Injunction Re
straining the Consolidation.
!
New York, February 19. —La Campaignie
Francaite du Telegraph, a Pari* et New York,
i generally known here as the French Cable
Company,ln the United States Circuit Court
j to day filed a bill of complaint against the
Western Union, American Union and At
lantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies, to
prevent the carrying out of some of the
j provisions of the consolidation agreement
formed on January 19th, 1881. The French
: Cable Company has a contract with the
American Union for the exclusive use of
; their cables in all their trans-Atlantic
telegraph business, which it ia claimed
will be Impaired by the consolidation. The
j bill of complaint sets forth that the com
! plainant was and is still a corporation con-
J ceded by and existing under the laws of
the Republic of France, and having its
principal place of business in Paris, France,
tbe orator being an alien and citizen of tbe
republic of France.
Prior to the agreement between the ora
tor and the defendant, the American Union
Telegraph Company, there existed but two
cable companies connecting Europe with
North America, namely: the Anglo-Ameri
can Cable and the Direct Cable companies,
both corporations existing under the laws
of Great Britain and Ireland, and said two
cable companies were respectively con
nected by close alliances and agreements
for the exclusive Interchange of telegraphic
messages and business with the two land
telegraph companies of the United States.
The French company was desirous of ob
taining, by all legitimate means in rivalry
| to other cable companies, all the business It
properly could, and in that view it entered
Into a close alliance and exclusive business
arrangements with the American Union
Telegraph Company, the only then existing
land telegraph company which had not, up
to that time, made any exclusive arrange
ment with the Anglo-American and the di
rect United States cable companies.
Complainaut then cites the agreements or
contracts entered Into by the orator and the
Western Union Telegraph Company on the
18;h of June, 1877, and sts forth that on
the 19th of January, 1881, the defendant
telegraph companies knew of the con
tracts between the orator and the
American Union Company. The ora
tor also shows that on tbe date last
mentioned the new company, the American
Telegraph Company, was incorporated
under the laws of the State of New York
for building and operating telegraph lines
throughout North America, and cables
from some eligible point on the Atlantic
coast to England, Ireland and France, and
all other fore’gn countries, and that the in
corporators and holders of the said company
were Jay Gould, Thos. T. Eckert, David P.
Bates and Frederick L. Ames; and the orator
sets forth his belief that Jay Gould now
owns or controls the majority of the stock
of the Western Union Telegraph Company.
Judge Blatchford has granted a temporary
injunction, argument on which will be
beard tn the United States Circuit Court on
the 24th Inst.
THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Opening: Weak and Unsettled, But
Closing Strong,
New York, February 19.—The stock mar
ket was irregular and unsettled during the
early portion of the day, but became strong
at the close. Prices opened from 3Y to 2
per cent, lower, and subsequently declined
from to 3 per cent, the latter In Hanni
bal and Bt. Joseph common. At the first
board an advance of from 4 to 5 per cent,
was recorded, the latter in La. and M.
River, Reading selling up Pacific Mail
and New Jersey Central Der cent.
Before noon, however, the market became
depressed and a decliue, ranging front % to
5 per cent., took place, in which New Jersey
Central, Union Pacific, Reading and North
west and Northern Pacific were most promi
nent.
In the late dealings speculation became
buoyant, and under vigorous buying the
entire list advanced. Th® closing prices
showed an advance from the lowest point of
from to per cent., the latter in Nash
! ville and Chattanooga, Reading, New Jersey
Central, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific
and Hannibal and St. Joe being also con
spicuous In the Improvement.
The sales aggregated 616,000 shares, In
cluding C., C. and I. C. 5,200, Canada
Southern 14,600, Delaware, Lackawanna
J and Western 26,800, Delaware and Hudson
10,700, Denver and Rio Grande 9,000, Erie
54,600, Hannibal and Bt. Joe 15,600, Iron
Mountain 12 800, Kansas and Texas 14,600,
Lake Shore 31,600, Louisville and Nashville
7,000, Michigan Central 8,000, Manhattan
Elevated 14,300, Northwestern 21,900, Nash
ville and Chattanooga 27,400, New Jersey
Central 38,800, New York Central 12,100,
Northern Pacific 31,400, Ohio and Missis
sippi 10,800, Ontario and Western 9,000.
Ohio Central 4,600, Pacific Mail 55,500,
Reading 33,800, St. Paul 21,700, St. Paul
and Omaha 5,500, Texas Pacific 5,300,
Union Pacific 34,400, Wabash Pacific 29,600,
Western Union 10,900.
STOCKS IN LONDON.
Tbe Financial Record of tbe Week.
London, February 19.—The Economist of
this week says: “The rate of discount for
bank bills of from Bixty days to three
months is 2% per cent., and for trade bills
of froip sixty days to three months 2% to 3
per cent. But for an exceptional depression
in home railways, caused by the prospect of
a war of rates and petitions against tbe Cale
donian for paying sums out of Its capital,
which are rightly chargeable to revenue,the
week’s record of fluctuations would have
been very generally gratifying to holders
of securities. The buoyancy abroad and
the reduction in the Bank of England rate are
strong elements in favor of advancing prices.
English colonial and foreign governments
show decided improvement. American and
other foreign railways and bank shares also
meet with good inquiry. There are, how
ever, some instances of a relapse in
insurance and water shares. In for
eign governments, Virginia new fund
ed advanced 4 per cent, on the week.
In American railways, New Jersey Central
shares advanced 17 per cent., Central Pa
cific and California, Illinois Central, Union
Pacific, St. Louis preferred, and
Erie preferred, 3 per cent, each; Ohio and
Mississippi, and St. Louis and Sah Fran
cisco, 1 per cent, each, and St. Louis and
Ban Francisco preferred, 4 per cent.”
SHOT BY THE GUARDS.
Desperate Americans Attempt to
Bscape troui a Mexican Dungeon.
Galveston, Tex , February 19.—A rpe
clal from El Paso says: “This morning
seven American prisoners, in jail
at El Paso del Norte, Mexico, made
a break, shooting one of the guards
In the head and running towards
the American line, but were overtaken by
the guard, who fired upon them. The
prisoners, being armed, returned the fire.
Three prisoners were killed, and the others
surrendered. Two of the guards were seri
ously wounded. Tbe prisoner* heard last
night that they were to be taken to Chi
huahua to day, which they believed meant
to be shot on the road, hence their desper
ate attempt at escape.”
Trying to (let a J ary.
New Orleans, February 20.—1n the
Derance murder case fifty jurors were em
panelled yesterday. Thus far two hun
dred and twenty-one jurors have been ex
amined, of which one hundred and ninety
one were challenged for cause, four by the
State, eighteen by the defense, and three
were excused by counsel. The examination
of jurors will be resumed to-morrow.
Serious Sitnaiion In Sweden.
London, February 19. —A dispatch from
Copenhagen says information from Stock
holm Is to the effect that the Republicans
in the Diet have defeated the government
on tbe Income tax bill, which was Intended
to cover a serious deficit in the budget, by
obstructing legislation. The situation Is
serious. The King has left Stockholm for
Christiana.
Found Murdered*
Dallas, Texas, February 20.—About 0
o'clock ibis evening' four shots were heard
In the neighborhood of the Texas pacific
passenger depot, and upon the arrival of
persons at the scene the corpse of A. R.
Strothers, a wealthy cattle man of Ennis,
Texas, was found. There is bo clue to the
murderers.
450,000 cakes sold the first year attest the
popularity of Cuticura Medicinal Soap.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
PARNELL TO THE MEN OF KING’S
COUNTY.
Tbe New Rules Cbauged-Statns of
the Boer Question Tbe Cape
Coast’s Perril —Tbe rope Dis
pleased.
London, February 19.— Just before the
House of Commons adjourned last night,
and when most of the reporters had left,
the Speaker said he had considered tbe
various questions and suggestions ad
dressed to him, and had framed new rules
In lieu of those announced on Thursday
last, which he trusted would meet the views
of the Home Rulers, as follows:
That in committee on any urgent bill, or
In the stage known as consideration of the
bill as amended, a Minister can move that
the remaining clauses and any amendments
or new clauses standing on the notice pa
per shall after a certain day or hour be
forthwith declared urgent, and such motion
by a Minister shall forthwith be put, but
shall not be decided affirmatively unless
voted by a two to one majority.
This seems to meet the Conservative ob
jections.
The Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of
State for India, on behalf of Mr. Gladstone,
gave the necessary notice of a motion, 6ucb
as is here referred to, on Monday next In
regard to the protection bill.
A dispatch from Rome says the Pope has
expressed his indignation to Mr. Parnell
and the principal members of the Land
League, whom the Roman Catholic Bishops
In Ireland have represented as only sincere
patriots, for having formed an alliance with
Henri Rochefort and other Clericals.
The Press Association says it understands
that the English Cabinet and the Boer Gov
ernment are and have been several days
past discussing the terms of peace proposed
by the latter, and It is believed this accounts
for General Sir Evelyn Wood’s advance be
ing unopposed.
London, February 19 —A Durban dis
patch reports that the Boers have retreated
la two columns, one of two thousand and
the other one thousand strong. The latter
column has gone into the Orange Free
State.
Cape Coast Castle, February 20.— The
beginning of hostilities is momentarily ex
pected. The Asbantees are three days
march from here. Four hundred and fifty
one soldiers and the crew of a gunboat have
arrived, and some Gatlings have been
landed.
Dublin, February 20.—Mr. Parnell ad
dressed 16,000 people at Clara, Kings
county, to-day. He was received by large
crowds with great enthusiasm at several
railway stations on the route. Ha advised
the people, especially the tenants, to remain
firm, and congratulated himself on having,
by obstruction In Parliament, prevented the
suspensien of the habeas corpus act for
seven weeks.
Weather Indications.
Ofjtcb Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, February 20.—Indications for
Monday:
In the South Atlantic States, barely
cloudy weather, occasional rain, northeast
erly winds, becoming variable, stationary or
higher temperature, and in the northern
portion lower barometer.
In the Middle Atlantic States,twarmer,
cloudy weather, occasional ralD, easterly
veering to westerly winds and lower barome
ter.
In the East Gulf States, clear or partly
cloudy weather, occasional rain, variable
wind*, stationary or higher temperature and
barometer.
In the West Gulf States, occasional rain,
followed by clearing weather, winds mostly
northwesterly, stationary or rising tempera
ture and barometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, cloudy
weather, occasional light rain, followed by
clearing weather, warm southwest veering
to colder northwest winds, rising preceded
la the eastern portion by falling barometer.
A Negro Woman Convicted of Mur
dering Her Husband.
Petersburg, Va , February 19 —The wife
of W. Foulkes, colored, on trial the past
two days in the County Court at Lunenburg
for the murder of her husband last January,
has been found guilty of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to b* hanged. The
murder was tbe most cold-blooded
and atrocious ever committed iu this
section. While Foulkes was asleep she
attacked him with an axe, brained him, and
threw his body in a well for the purpose of
concealing the crime. The motive for the
deed was shown on trial to be to get rid of
her husband and live with another man
with whom she was enamored.
New Orleans Notes.
New Orleans, February 19.—The new
Louisiana Jockey Club carnival begins
February 25th and wiii continue three days.
There will also be a three days’ shooting
tournament at Frogmore, beginning Feb
ruary 26, open to all amateurs. Fifteen
hundred pigeons, three thousand leather
wing bats and thousands of glass balls will
be used.
The breaks and washouts along the New
Orleans and Mobile Railroad have been re
paired, and Superintendent Ilarahon states
that passenger trains will to day resume
their regular trips, and freight trains to
morrow.
In Favor of an Increase of Stock.
New York, February 19.—At a meeting
of the stockholders of the United States
Telegraph Company to-day, 325,973 shares
voted tn favor of an Increase of stock to
800,000 shares of SIOO e&cb, and 100 against
the Increase. The 100 shares which were
voted against the Increase belong to Win. 8.
Williams, who has brought one of tbe suits
against the consolidation. Jay Gould, Wm.
H. Vanderbilt and G°v. Cornell were pres
ent at tbe meeting. Mast of tbe shares were
voted by proxy.
Railway Smash Up.
Harrisonburg, Va , February 2-3.—A
freight train on the Valley Railroad was
wrecked about 12 o’clock to day, a short
distance south of Fort Defiance. The
accident was caused by a slide in
the deep cut near that station.
John Waller, depot master at Harrisonburg,
was seriously, if not mortally woueded.
The train was completely wrecked, and, al
though (here were a number of passengers
on board, no one else was seriously injured.
Germany and the Porte.
London, February 19.—A Constantinople
dispatch to Reuter’s' Telegram Company
says Count Von Hatzfeldt, German Am
bassador to the Porte, brought with him
definite instructions for Baron Von Calice,
the Austrian Ambassador, which bad been
agreed upon by Germany and Austria. The
instructions to the 4tHbassador show that in
the event of war the powers will undertake
to localize it.
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The Sunken Widdrlugton.
Halifax, February lp—The cargo of the
sunken steamer Widdrington baa been taken
out. Besides two holes in her side a num
ber of her main and between deck beams
are broken. The deck Is started and two of
her waterway plates are cut in two. She is
being repaired.
M. Goals’ Room in the Grain Trade.
St. Louis, February 20. — Tbe elevators
here are busy loading barges with wheat
and corn for foreign shipment via New Or
leans. From three to four hundred thou
sand bushels will be sent out early this
week and more will follow.
Tillage Destroyed by Avalanches.
London, February 20—A dispatch from
Paris says the village of Breviers, In the de
partment of Bavoy, has been completely
destroyed by two avalanches. Fifteen per
sons were killed. The damage Is estimated
at two hundred and fifty thousand francs.
Shot at tbe Card Table.
Galveston, February 20. —A special dis
patch from E igleJPass, Tex., says: “In a
dispute over a game of cards this evening,
a colored man named Reilly was shot and
mortally wounded by a man named Tom
Leakey.”
Marseilles’ Opinion oi Thiers.
Paris, February 19.—The municipality of
Marseilles,by a vote 6f 33 to 1, has annulled
Its decision to grant a Site for the erection
of a statue to the late M. Thiers, on the
ground that he was an enemy to radical
Ideas. *•**'"
Military^ Council.
Constantinople, February 20.—A great
military council wds held to-day. All the
military authorities were present,
—>■♦.• i ■
It is a genera! belief that thw- nQ reme
dy for Consumption po„ib"i,. la some
casgs. t_e assertion may be correct. We
know, however, of many cures made by Dr.
Bull s Cough Syrup, and will guarantee
positive relief to the sufferer In every in
stance, feb2l-lt
AUDACIOUS LYNCHERS
Hang the La Praede Murderer® from
tbe Court House Windows Tbe
Tennessee Senate Condemns the
Mob.
Cincinnati, February 19.—Telegrams
i from Springfield, Tens., represent that
i troops were present for the protection of
of the alleged La Praede murderers on
trial there, and that they gave a parade in
the court house yesterday before dark.
That after dark a furious thunder 6torm
came on, and fears of the prisoners
being lynched then vanished. A night
session was held to finish the trial.
Judge Stark gave his charge to the jury,
after which the Sheriff proceeded with the
prisoners, Jas. Higgins, Dock Mallory, Lou
Thweatt, Robt. Thweatt and Jas. Eider, to
the jail. A mob of about two hundred
pressed upon the Sheriff, took the prisoners,
closed the court house aud Its grounds, sta
tioned a strong picket around them and
hung the five negro prisoners from the sec
ond story windows of the court house.
Tbe onset of the mob was from without,
and was so sudden and boisterous, accom
panied by firing pistols and guns in the air,
as to terrify tbe spectators in the court
rooms, who jumped from the windows and
hastened from the scene.
Murphy and Duffy, the two charged with
complicity In the murder, haying been re
leased on Thursday, had returned
to their old stamping ground, which
Is thought to have precipitated
the action of the mob. The mob are after
them, and it is believed they will be
lynched not later than to-night. The
mob numbered two hundred well-armed
men, who cams in from four direc
tions ou horseback, and dispersed
in the same manner. They did
not shoot or mutilate the prisoners, but
left them hanging until assured that they
were dead. The dispatches are silent as to
what the military were doiug ali this while.
Nashville, February 19.—The State Sen
ate this morning unanimously adopted a
resolution condemning the action of the
mob at Springfield in takiDg tbe La Praede
prisoners from the custody of the court
and putting them to death, aud declaring
that mob3 must be suppressed if it takes
the whole power of the State. The resolu
tion calls upon the Governor to use all
means for the arrest and punishment of the
perpetrators of this crime, and promising
tbe active co-operation of the Legislature.
It is reported that Duffy and Murphy, the
La Praede murderers who turned State’s
evidence, were found hanging to a tree
near Guthrie, Ky., this morning.
OUR ADVANTAGES.
Cause of th® Growth of tho United
States.
London ( Ont.) Advertiser.
Why has the growth of the United
States been so far in advance of other
countries, some of which have not been
without material advantages fully as
great? There is no doubt that the great
cause, overshadowing all others, has
been the political and social attractions
it offers to all the world as the home of
civil and religious liberty aud of self
government. With the advance of
knowledge and the development of in
tellect comes the desire for the fullest
personal freedom and the most absolute
self-government consistent with law and
order. As the masses of people begin
to think for themselves, they desire
the liberty of speaking and acting for
themselves. Democracy is unquestiona
bly the only form of human government
consistent with the instincts and feelings
of a developed humanity. Sovereign
ties, personal governments of every form,
are but confessions of human weakness
and imperfection. * * * No land on
the face of the earth has ever been able
to bold out attractions of this kind to tbe
people of the Old World to the same ex
tent as the United States. It is true that
iu seme respects the attractions shine
with colors more glowiDg than the actual
facts will warrant. It is true there are
other countries where liberty and self
government and equality are as
great, and where the brightest hopes
are as sure to meet the fullest frui
tion. But, then, it is not always possi
ble to make the intending emigrant
recognize these facts. In Canada there
may be a better government than in the
United States—a freedom as wide and
possibilities of advancement as great,
but we must not besurpmed if a liberty
seeking European, comparatively little
acquainted with our circumstances,
should laugh at the idea that the colonial
dependency of an old world empire
could, in any sense, be the land of free
dom that the United States is supposed
to be. Whatever the actual facts may
be, is it not to be questioned that, to the
European, oppressed whether lightly or
heavily by tbe political, religious, social
or commercial laws of his country, the
United States stands out prominently as
the land of brightest hopes.
And the republic is doing much to jus
tify the hopes of its future held by its
friends and by the friends of civil liberty
everywhere. In striving for that perfect
form of government and of society
which shall be the condition of a perfect
humanity, many mistakes will be made,
many failures will he met. But there
is no country in which the experimental
course of humanity has to follow in
its development can be more fully
and more rapidly traveled. The ma
terial resources of the country and
the energy of its inhabitants enable it to
remedy the mistakes and to recover the
failures its people may iriake. Faults
almost innumerable display themselves
to the outsider; errors of judgment,
errors of action, mistaken theories and
mistaken practices. But, despite them
all, the nation makes a steady advance,
correcting some errors, repeating some
blunders; all the time, we trust, leading
to something better—something nearer
that perfect condition to which all ad
vancing movement leads.
Tub Women of Montenegro.— The
Montenegrin woman takes an equal
share of labor with the man at field
work, and she does all the carrying. In
travel here one engages a horse to ride
and a woman for the baggage. Only
those who have neither wife, mother,
daughter, nor dependent female relation,
shoulder burdens as a common thing.
Transport by animals also is a depart
ment of female occupation. Coming
from CettiDje here one meets pack horses,
mules, donkeys, going up in droves,with
a gang of women following. Tremendous
weights they carry, slung by straps that
cross the upper chest, and as they
go they knit or spin, These dwellers by
the frontier are much better looking than
the unmixed race of the interior, but not
less hardy, strong and Independent.
They have no shame or hesitation in beg
eing, and universal mendicancy on the
part of women and girls must, I imagine,
have its influence on morality. In leav
ing Montenegro the traveler carries with
him a deep regard for the gallantry, the
manliness and the shrewd intelligence of
this strange people. He is constrained
to wish them well, and to hope that they
will acquire means to live at peace here
after.
Jealous and Cruel. —An incident
that occurred at a recent dance may
serve as a slight warning apropos of
the present custom among ladM d# car
rying muffs in hall rooms. A young
lady, on setting off for a valse, gave her
muff to a devoted admirer to hold for
her. To him came a second ladv, who
loved not the beaux yeux of the fair
dancer. Jealousy has sharp eyes, and
in this case they discovered a little white
note nestling within the folds of the
flower muff. Women can be cruel to
e&ch othee occasionally, and when the
owner of the muff returned she was
handed in public a note, af whose exist
ence she was totally unaware, and which
was intended to reach her hSQ'I iu *
quieter manner- The write* ~ ;
mil guardian of the
w — powerless in the relent
iesa of the finder of the note, to
whom the fact that the lady’s husband
was a witness of his young wife’s con
fusion was only an enjoyment the more.
—London Truth.
Rich in muscle-producing material be-
Jond all other foods and medicines are Malt
Utters.
3/U 10.
TALLAHASSEE JOTTINGS.
SATURDAY’S PROCEEDINGS OF
THE LEGISLATURE.
School Statistics—Satisfactory Show
Ing— Commissioners* Summary—
Dr. 5* cMeekln’s Record a Good Oue
—Dead Bills—Shad to be Protected
—Convicts—Editor in Trouble-
Church Fair—Railroad to Peusa>
cola—Va rious Items.
Tallahassee, Fla.,* February 20.—The
following bills were introduced yesterday
in the Senate:
By Mr. McKay—Providing for the draw
ing of jurors and prescribing the qualifica
tions of grand jurors.
By Mr. Niblack—Authorizing tbe ap
pointment of Notaries Public; also for legal
izing wills of married women.
The Senate passed to a third reading the
tax and finance bill.
In the Assembly, bills were introduced as
follows:
By Mr. Kennedy—Relating to the num
ber of petit jurors.
By Mr. Reynolds—Requiring transporta
tion companies to forward freight over their
lines.
By Mr. Watson—Deferring the effect of
certificates of the Comptroller, Treasurer
and other officers.
By Mr. Dougherty—Relating to the sale
of lands of deceased persons and minors;
also to Incorporate the Orange City College.
The following confirmations were made:
T. J. Walker to be Sheriff of Lafayette
county; F. M. Townsend to be Collector,
and F. E. Saxon, Assessor of Hernando
county ; J. 8. Fannin to be Clerk of Cal
houn county.
Tallahassee, February 18.—Some of the
facts presented tn the report of the late Super
intendent of the Board of Public Instruction
for the State, for the year ending last Septem
ber, may possess some interest.
The total number of public schools are 1,131,
an Increase of 214 during the past three years,
while the accessions to the pupils therein ag
gregate 8,162. The sum of $114,865 was expend
ed for school purposes for the year preceding
last September, Duval county paying tbe larg
est amount, and Baker the least. Columbia con
tains more, and Franklin fewer schools than
any other county.
The school census for 1830 shows that there
are in the State 46,410 white and 42,068 negro
children, between the ages of four and twenty
one.
Mr. Haisley, after making extended re
marks upon various recommendations, sum
marizes them as follows:
First. That the rate o: county school tax be
restored to five mills, the ainouat assessed
previous to 1876.
Second. The limiting of instruction in schools
operated at the public expense to tbe common
school branches.
Third. The granting of special charters to
cities under which a tax may be imposed for
tbe support of high schools.
Fourth Asa means of increasing school
revenue (1), the application of the per capita
tax to school purposes, and the making its
payment a prerequisite to the right of suffrage,
(2) the requirement of a license tax from
persons carrying concealed weapons.
Fifth That the County Superintendents be
required to take the school census instead of
the Assessors, as la now the case, and that the
law be made more definite as to the fund from
which the compensation for this work shall be
paid.
Sixth. That only those who have had actual
experience in teaching be eligible to the office
of County Superintendent of Schools.
Seventh. That county boards of public in
struction be constituted in such manner as to
represent both political parties, and, in those
counties where tbe colored element is large,
both races: Provided, always, that a majority
of such board be in harmony with the admin
istration.
Dr. F. M. McMeekin, a member of the As
sembly from Putnam, is a native of South
Carolina, and was born In Union district, of
that State, in 183). He had the misfortune to
lose his parents before attaining the age of nine
years. In 1855 he graduated at the South Caro
lina Medical College, and moved to Florida in
1857, locating in Putnam county.
At the beginning of the late war he volun
teered in the Confederate service, and held the
rank of Lieutenant. He was one of the hand
ful of men who surrendered with General Lee
at Appomattox.
Returning to bis home after the close of the
struggle, utterly Impoverished, he abandoned
the practice of medicine and put his hands
resolutely to the plow. In this occupation he
has been fairly successful.
He represented his county iu the Senate dur
ing the sessions of 1877 and 1879, with credit
and ability, and was re-elected in 1880 to the
Assembly.
He is a solid, working, industrious member
of the Legislature, faithful and conscientious
ia the discharge of his duties, and bearing a
high character for honesty and integrity.
The bill for the establishment of a State
University with a normal department, has
failed in the Senate. It provided for the con
solidation of all the property, debts and funds
belonging to the Agricultural College and the
Bast and West Florida Seminaries. Thirty
nine scholarships were to be endowed, allow
ing $l5O to each.
The contemplated Bureau of Agriculture has
also been indefinitely postponed. It was as
certained by the committee in charge of the
subject that such an institution could not ho
organized at a less expense than $20,000, and
the project was abandoned.
A bill has just passed the Senate forbidding
the catching of shad in this State between sun
down Saturday afternoon and sun rise Monday
morning of each week.
This accomplishes a double purpose, iu com
pelling the observance of the Sabbath, and
permitting the fish to run up to the head
waters of the rivers
A violation of th(s l&w subjects the
offender to a fine not less than
twenty-five and not more than one
hundred dollars, and the loss of his boate
and fishing tackle, and to imprisonment not
less than ten nor more than thirty days.
Philip Phillips, the celebrated singer, had a
fine audience last Tuesday night. His vocal
powers are as yet undiminished.
Two of the committee that visited the con
vict camp in Duval county were so unfortunate
as to contract the measles.
The report of that committee vas very
favorable as to the general condition, appear
ance, discipline aqd health of the prisoners.
The committee made a careful Inspection of
every matter involved, and were well satisfied
with the survey. The report was unanimously
favorable. The present number of prisoners Is
125, and only two were on the sick list.
An article that appeared In the Tampa 5*4-
htme of the 12th inst. led to the appointment
or a committee on the part of the Assembly to
determine the truth or falsity of the charges
ther Ju specified.
The allegations set forth that the members
from Monroe county had entered into an ar.
rangemeut with the county officers for a divi
sion of the profits to b derived from their
re spective offices The committee are author
ized to send for persons and papers, and to
6itamine witnesses under oath.
Sergeant-at-Arms Gonzalez, of the Assembly,
has been ordered to proceed to Tampa and
bring back Dr. J. f. Wall, editor of the Tri
bune. for ,the purpose of obtaining his testi
mony.
TbS ladies of the Methodist Church gave an
entertainment last night, which wa* well at
tended. Gov. Bioxham was present, with his
accomplished wife, and a large number of the
citizens and members of the Legislature. Ail
of the various tables were cleared of their
eontente, and the fair managers certainly had
reason to be satisfied with the result. One of
the venerable Judges of the Supreme Court
cast a line twice into the fishing pool, and had
the good luck to capture a red herring and a
penny trumpet, which spoils he generously
turned over to the first African youth he en
countered.
The bill incorporating the railroad from Pen
sacola to the Chattahoochee river reached its
third reading in the Senate yesterday, and
passed by a vote of seventeen ayes to seven
nays. It excited a warm and protracted dis
cussion, the opposition on the part of several
members from the east being based on the
opinion that the aid asked for in the way of
land grants was greater than was necessary
for the enterprise.
The appropriations obtained amount to about
six millions of acres of the land available for
internal Improvement purposes. Asa return
the company proposes to pay one half of the
debt now outstanding against the internal im
provement fund, which action will relieve the
board to the amount of nearly half a million
dollars.
The famous liquor bill, with numerous
proposed by the Assembly, has
been returned to the Senate, and Its considera
tion has been fixed for Thursday of next week
Old citizens here say that there has been less
dissipation among the members of this than
in previous Legislatures. There shouldn’t be
any, of course, but it is gratifying to know
that there is an improvement in this respect
Ihe Assembly have found it necessary to
hold three nigt>t sessions this week to catch
up with them business. The Senate gets
through with its work more rapidly, being a
smaller body and containing a larger propor
&atio“ embers PQaiea ‘ iiiyi
. BjfSS, Madison, hag k* .. .
by the Supreme Court * - ,6n appointed
that place, relative w* " l * ke testimony at
the meantime. *•- ‘• ne recent murder. In
to the Eagan has been remanded
v -Aiy of the Sheriff of this county,
evidence will be considered by the above
tribunal next Thursday. An agreement to this
effect has been entered into by the attorney,for
the State and prisoner.
Colonel Coryell, the originator of the project
for draining Lake Okechobee and constructing
the canal to extend from that lake to the
mouth of the St. John's river, is in the city. He
is choos full of zeal and energy, and has just
returned from a trip to Philadelphia to arrange
all the preliminaries for this great enterprise.
Colonel Davidson, In replying to the late
speech of Colonel Bis bee, winds up in the fol
lowing truthful language:
“And now, Mr. Speaker, in conclusion, I must
say that the attack made on me and the
Democrats of my State br Mr. Bisbee was
altogether unwarranted. Why did be make
ESTABLISHED 1850.
It? Was it made to celebrate bis advent into
i thisi House, to which he has so recently been
i admitted by Democratic votes ? Or was it
I made with the hope that gentlemen here
might be Induced to prejudge contested elec
, tion cases which may arise in the next House?
Whatever his motive was, Mr. Speaker, I have
I but to say that the unkind, bitter and malig
nant spirit evinced bv the member from the
Second district of Florida must have emanated
; from a heart which is never moved or in
; flueneed by the k nder. nobler, and more
I generous impulses and feelings of our nature."
t each trees are in bloom, and planters and
gardeners Are breaking up their fields and
preparing them for the reception of the seed.
W. H. B.
When Does a Passenger Cease to be a
Passenger l
In an action against a railroad com-
Eany for & statute penalty for killing one
[., claimed to be a passenger upon de
fendant’s railroad, it appeared that the
deceased, who was traveling on defen
dant’s train, left it while it was in mo
tion, slowly passing a station where he
intended to alight, and was struck by a
train passing on another track and killed.
Held, that deceased was not a passenger
after he had left the moving train, and
was not entitled to protection by defen
dant as such. It is true that one who
has bought a ticket of a railroad corpora
tion is ordinarily a passenger of the cor
poration from the time when he reason
ably and properly starts from the ticket
office or waiting room in the station to
| take his seat in a car of the train until
he has reached the station to which he
! is entitled to be carried, and has bad an
j opportunity by safe and convenient
I means to leave the train and roadway of
| the corporation at that station. The
: duty of the corporation toward him is
I to furnish a well constructed and safe
road, suitable engine and cars, compe
tent and careful enginemen, conductors
and other necessary laborers, in order
that all injuries ( which human foresight
can guard against may be prevented.
But this duty rests on th corporation
only so long as the passenger sees fit to
be carried by it; and if he chooses to
abandon his journey at any point before
reaching the place to which he is en
titled to be carried, the corporation
ceases to be under any obligation to pro
vide him with the means of traveling
further. By leaving the train while in
motion, H. ceased to be a passenger arfO
to have the rights of a passenger as com
pletely, though the train was moving
slowly and was near by the station, as if
he haa left it while moving at full speed
between stations. The fact that the car
in which H. was had passed the platform
of the station to which he wfcs entitled
to be carried did not give him the right
t* leave the train at the risk of the com
pany.—Massachusetts Supreme Court.
A Son's Confession.— Geo. M. Roush,
a prominent stock raiser, says a Bloom
ington (111) special, died three years ago
suddenly one night in his bed. It
was supposed to be heart disease. His es
tate, amounting to $50,000, was divided
among his three children aDd wife, the
latter following him to the grave about a
year later. The eldest son, Peter, went
to Northern lowa, succeeded in adding
to bis wealth, married wealthy, and was
accounted a valuable citizen. A few days
ago be died. When informed he could
not live, in the presence of a physician
and his family, he made a confession
that he had murdered bis father in order
to get a share of the property. Mr.
Roush was in the habit of placing a
glass of water near his bed, and Peter
slipped into his room, emptying poison
in the water, which his father unsus
pectingly drank in the night.
The father of Charles Ross, writing to
the latest discoverers of the lost boy in
Canada, says that the last spark of hope
has gone out, and he mourns the lost one
as dead. After giving reasons why the
Canada boy cannot possibly be Charlie,
he adds: “I haft always believed that
my Charlie, although only four years and
two months old at the time he was taken,
would remember his brother Walter’
who was taken away with him, and had
also thought that he would even have a
distinct recollection of the feeling of
loneliness that he must have experienced
when he found he was in the hands of
strangers and separated from his par
ents." On another recent occasion, Mr.
Ross said: “The only tidings I have ever
received of Charlie since he was stolen
was the demand for a ransom of $20,-
000. If I had paid that, I would have
had him long before this. As it is I have
spent $60,000, and have not got him.”
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